Saturday, May 10, 2014

An Arkansas clerk issued the state's
first gay marriage license on Saturday, breaking a barrier that voters
put in place with a constitutional amendment 10 years ago. Carroll
County Deputy Clerk Jane Osborn issued a license Saturday morning to
Kristin Seaton, 27, and Jennifer Rambo, 26, of Fort Smith. They had
slept in a Ford Focus after arriving in Eureka Springs at 2 a.m.
Saturday and were the first of about 10 couples to line up outside of
the courthouse before it opened. When the license was issued, Rambo
said, "Thank God." Seaton and Rambo, who have been together four years,
then held a marriage ceremony on the courthouse steps. A woman in a
rainbow dress officiated.

It is mindfulness that places the mind
on the chosen object of meditation and returns the mind to that object
when it wanders. As a well-known meditation instruction says, ‘Tie the
wild elephant of the mind to the post of the meditation object with the
rope of mindfulness.’ Mindfulness prevents distraction.

The adorably-pastel-shirted Benham brothers, sons of anti-abortion
extremist Flip Benham, went on CNN to clarify that they truly love the
homosexual and the Muslim. What they hate, however, is the homosexual
and Muslim “agenda.”

David Benham even compared the fight against gay marriage to the fight against Nazi Germany. (Don’t recall that one in the Bible.) And then invoked the Leviticus passage that calls for gays to be put to death.

As is always the case with these folks of late, they’re now claiming
that they’re the real victims. Because their victims stepped up and got
to them first.

The Benham’s line, which is typically self-deluded, is that 85% of
America is Christian, so how come all these gays and Muslims and
pro-choicers keep getting their way?

Um, because 85% of America isn’t YOUR kind of Christian. This is a
common fallacy on the far-right. They think they speak for God, and all
Christianity, without realizing that they’re relative newcomers to the
whole Christian game, and that lots of faiths, Christian and otherwise,
don’t share their hatred of gays and Muslims, and don’t get terribly
involved in the whole abortion debate.The Benhams also pulled the victim card out, because it’s a terrible
thing for freedom when a minority gets in the way of you denying them their freedom. If this keeps up, everyone is going to want to be free.